Judy Manton taught English to adult immigrants in New York City for 32 years. She also taught English to professors at the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 1980-82. She taught in various other parts of China prior to becoming the director of the Zigen program. She has been a professor of cross-cultural studies at a university in New Jersey for 23 years. Ms. Manton first visited China in 1972 and had the great honor of meeting Premier Zhou En-lai. Her late husband was active in helping China obtain a seat in the United Nations. As his American mother had been born in Fujian and later became a teacher there, he had grown up hearing about her love for China. He founded the China-America Relations Society and initiated some of the first exchanges between China and the United States. Judy Manton has visited China 27 times for a total of over 5 years living in China. She speaks some Chinese.
Dr. Cynthia S. Wiseman is a tenured professor at City University of New York. She has been teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language for 40 years in various programs, including higher education, adult education, public and private elementary, middle, and high schools, and in Intensive English Programs both in the United States and abroad, including China, Senegal, Brazil, Mexico, and France. Dr. Wiseman is also a teacher trainer. Besides four summers training EFL teachers in Shanxi and Guizhou -- Shiloh, LinXian, & Huang Ping County-- she has taught in TESOL graduate programs in the US, including the New York University MA TESOL program and the New School for Research, with particular concentration on evaluation and assessment. She also teaches courses in Linguistics, and methods and priniciples of ESL/EFL. Dr. Wiseman earned an EdD in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focused on the assessment of second language writing. This summer will be her 5th summer working in the ETTP program.
Yikai Xu ( Duke) graduated from Shanghai International Studies University with a bachelor degree of Arts, majored in Korean language and Literature. Enrolled in Vanderbilt University to study International Education Policy and Management as a graduate student from 2014-2016.Duke has run an international student organization called Global China Connection as a president of SH Committee and representative of China, which is a student-run NGO dedicated to establishing a platform for Chinese college students and international ones to form positive relationship and assist them to success. Duke is interested in entrepreneurship as well as field of Education. He started up an education company in 2012, delivering oversea training program for college students and joined in an education start-up in 2014 as a partner which acquire first round of investment by China accelerator. He is interested in education reform, education policy and early childhood education. Looking forward to making a difference to the world through education.
SQ Wang, Australian National University
Shuai Pan, Wuhan University
Cameron Hu, La Jolla High School, La Jolla, California
Zara Horlacher, Singapore United World College (high school)
Bianca Banks, HK Chinese International School
The professors were to be assisted by Chinese-speaking college students and teachers from the U.S. and China who were either studying to become English teachers or who were actively teaching English. Huang Ping County Educational Bureau was supposed to arrange with Kali Teachers College for a bilingual teacher on our staff. Tentative Calendar Summer 2014
July 13 – Arrive in Guiyang
July 14 –Leave on a 12:30 bus for Huang Ping. Moves into hotel. Meet Li Yongyang, Zigen Fund Director for Guizhou & Li Xiaoping, Ass’t Director of HP Education Bureau.
July 15 – Set up office in high school and arrange classrooms
July 16 - Participate in a day-long Miao festival in a village in Kali County. Cynthia arrives and will be taken to the festival. Over 1,000 Miao will be in attendance as well as guides for us who speak English.
July 17 – Mr. Ni has a surprise for us!
July 18 – Meet the teachers for the first time. Give them the placement test and form classes. Have the opening ceremony which introduces the program to them.
July 19-28 – Teach the classes. Have a closing ceremony and party.
July 19+ - Cynthia leaves Guiyang 31st, Judy Aug. 4th, volunteers on different dates. Judy would like to visit some other part of Guizhou with some of the staff or teachers.
Summer 2013
Previous sites: This program has been held previously in Leishan (Guizhou) Lin Xian (Shanxi), Shilou (Shanxi) and Qinglong (Hebei).
Dates: The program for 2013 began on July 15th. Orientation for the staff to the new site and to the program, to set up the office and to coordinate our plans and expectations with those of the local Education Bureau started on July 12th.
(Judy Manton and Emily He were to arrive on July 11th. Dr. Cynthia Wiseman could not arrive until July 15th.)
Zigen English Teachers Program Schedule for July , 2014
9:00 Opening Ceremon Welcome
Educational Bureau Officials
Manton, Director ZTTP
Staff
10:15 Overview of Program
PPT
Pass out the schedule for the first week
10:30 Closing: group sing
o“Do You Speak English?”
o“We Are Teaching in HP”
10:45 Sign-up and Registration forms
Sign-up for oral interview
Registration/interview forms pass out
11:00-1pm Oral Interviews
Oral interviews
1-2:15 Working LUNCH
Before lunch, Interviewers review results and tentatively assign participants to Group 1 or 2.
During lunch, discussion re: placement and final decisions.
SQ types up the class lists and tapes them on the doors of our classrooms.
2:30 Afternoon Session
Teach “Concentric Circles” & “Who is Like Me?”
Set up student-to-student interviews in the classrooms. Ts brainstorm the questions.
Day 1
Introductions: Presentation: diagnostic interview Ice breakers, games, song
Asking questions: Student-to-student interviews
Day 2
Teaching pronunciation
Teaching Vocabulary
Day 3
Using English in the Classroom
Listening Activities
Day 4
Communicative Activities
Preparation for Presentations
Day 5
Presentations
Feedback/Reflection
Tentative Academic Schedule for Summer 2014 (subject to change)
Week 1
Day 1
7/15
AM
Introductions
Program overview
Expectations & Goal Setting
What makes a successful language learner?
What makes a good teacher?
Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement
PM
Getting acquainted activities using English
o Games
o Songs
Day 2
7/16
AM
Communicative teaching
Using pair and group work (ch. 12)
Using visual aids (ch. 7)
Using blackboard
PM
Teacher Talk
Asking questions (ch. 2)
Eliciting (ch. 14)
Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19)
Day 3
7/17
AM
Teaching pronunciation (ch.10)
Diagnostic test
How sounds are formed
Games and activities
PM
Teaching speaking
Error correction (ch. 16)
Role plays (ch. 20)
Information gap activities
Storytelling: oral narratives
Asking for and giving directions/instructions
Day 4
7/18
AM
Teaching Listening (ch. 17)
Oral dictations
Using films
Cloze activities w/ music
PM
Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1)
Day 5
7/19
AM
Communicative activities (ch. 18)
PM
Games for learning English
Songs for learning English
Week 2
Day 1
7/22
AM
Teaching Grammar
Presenting structures (ch. 3)
Practicing structures (ch 6)
PM
Communicative activities for teaching grammar
Teaching grammar in context
Day 2
7/23
AM
Teaching reading
Teaching basic reading (ch. 9)
Reading activities (ch. 15)
PM
Reading activities
Day 3
7/24
AM
Planning a lesson (ch. 8)
Scope & sequence of textbooks
Using teacher guides w/ textbooks
PM
Using ppts & realia & other materials
Day 4
7/25
AM
Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction
PM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
Day 5
7/25
AM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
PM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
Day 6
7/26
AM
My Experience in this training session: reflective practice
My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals
Academic Schedule for Summer 2013
Week 1
Day 1
7/15
AM
Introductions
Program overview
Expectations & Goal Setting
What makes a successful language learner?
What makes a good teacher?
Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement
PM
Getting acquainted activities using English
o Games
o Songs
Day 2
7/16
AM
Communicative teaching
Using pair and group work (ch. 12)
Using visual aids (ch. 7)
Using blackboard
PM
Teacher Talk
Asking questions (ch. 2)
Eliciting (ch. 14)
Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19)
Day 3
7/17
AM
Teaching pronunciation (ch.10)
Diagnostic test
How sounds are formed
Games and activities
PM
Teaching speaking
Error correction (ch. 16)
Role plays (ch. 20)
Information gap activities
Storytelling: oral narratives
Asking for and giving directions/instructions
Day 4
7/18
AM
Teaching Listening (ch. 17)
Oral dictations
Using films
Cloze activities w/ music
PM
Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1)
Day 5
7/19
AM
Communicative activities (ch. 18)
PM
Games for learning English
Songs for learning English
Week 2
Day 1
7/22
AM
Teaching Grammar
Presenting structures (ch. 3)
Practicing structures (ch 6)
PM
Communicative activities for teaching grammar
Teaching grammar in context
Day 2
7/23
AM
Teaching reading
Teaching basic reading (ch. 9)
Reading activities (ch. 15)
PM
Reading activities
Day 3
7/24
AM
Planning a lesson (ch. 8)
Scope & sequence of textbooks
Using teacher guides w/ textbooks
PM
Using ppts & realia & other materials
Day 4
7/25
AM
Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction
PM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
Day 5
7/25
AM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
PM
Model Lessons
Self-evaluation
Day 6
7/26
AM
My Experience in this training session: reflective practice
My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals
Schedule of topics for Summer 2012
16/7
Teaching vocabulary
17/7
Asking questions
18/7
Presenting/practicing structure
19/7
reading skills/basic reading
20/7
Teaching pronunciation
23/7
Using pair and group work
24/7
Writing activities
25/7
Reading activities
26/7
Listening activities
27/7
Communicative teaching
30/7
Using English in the Classroom
31/7
Games & Songs
1/8
Games & Songs
2-3/8
Preparation for final skit
Scheduled Topics for Summer 2012
16/7
20/7
30/7
Vocabulary
Pronunciation
17/7
21/7
31/7
Listening
Games
18/7
22/7
1/8
Songs
Reading
19/7
23/7
2/8
Speaking
Writing
2/8
Preparation for final presentations
3/8
Final Presentations
Proposed Daily Schedule for Summer 2012
8:30-9:30 Presentation of teaching methods
9:30-10:15 Pairwork: Using methods for textbook
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Teacher presentations of lessons
11:30-3:30 Lunch break
3:30-4:20 1st class
4:20-4:35 Break
4:35-5:30 2nd class
Academic Calendar for Summer 2011
July 10-17 Arrival of Staff at LinXian Hotel, LinXian, Shanxi Province. Set-up of office, orientation of volunteers, planning of program
July 12 Meeting with local teachers and toured local schools
July 18
Arrival of teachers
Opening ceremony
Ice-breaker activities
Interviews & placement testing
July 19 1st day of class
Aug 11 Public Lesson
Aug 12 Last day of class & closing ceremony & party
Aug 13 Program evaluation, pack up materials
Academic Calendar for Summer 2010 12 July Train or plane to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province All volunteers arrive at Taiyuan Liu Li and the van pick us up at Taiyuan 13 July Orientation to Lishi, the hotel and school 14 July Training of the volunteers and set up the office 15 July Training of the volunteers 16 July Training of the volunteers and of Lishi teacher volunteers 17 July (Sunday) visit some teachers in a village participants (teachers) arrive from villages 18 July Placement test and welcome 19 July Classes begin 12 Aug Classes end, party! 13 Aug (Friday) Teaching staff packs up the teaching materials and everyone is taken to Taiyuan
Tentative program
July 19 · Introductions · Orientation · Icebreakers
July 20 · Games and activities · Icebreakers
July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24
July 25
July 26
July 27
July 28
July 29
July 30
July 31
August 1
August 2
August 3
August4
August 5
August 6
August 7
August 8
August 9
August 10
August 11
August 12 · Last Day · Party
August 13 · Clean up · Wrap-up · feedback
July 14 AM: Meeting of all staff · Orientation · Program · Zigen · Education PM: Set up office · Materials (files & library) · Procedures (photocopying, procedures, internet access, transportation, etc.) · Assignment of classes (elementary & middle/high school) · Get local textbooks · Council of students – feedback
July 15 Training of Volunteers Introduction to field of EFL/ESL · SLA · Methods · Materials · Activities · Curriculum · Approaches · Whole Language · Pronunciation · Lesson Planning according to the textbook · English corner · Visualizer (multimedia machine) · CDs, overhead, internet Planning the Program: · Reality check: What can the teachers use in class? How can they learn English by using it? · Evenings: movies w/ activities · Daily schedule: 8:30-11:30; 2:30-5:30 (?) · Assignment of responsibilities o Liaison with education – Luilei o Materials – Judy o Photocopying – o Liaison w/ restaurant and hotel Day 1 – Training Introduction to ESL/EFL · SLA – Language learning · Methods/Approaches · Skills/grammar/vocab · Language teaching · Materials for different levels & different textbooks & supplementary materials & development of supplementary activities · Cultures represented in textbooks? · Development of lessons? · ESL websites? · Assignments · Materials on internet Day 2 – Training Volunteers AM: in pairs – plan a lesson (timing, activities, textbook, etc.) PM: presentation of lesson and feedback Day 3 – Training Focus on different skills and components of language learning/teaching · Listening/speaking reading/writing · Vocabulary · Grammar
The staff consisted of:
The professors were to be assisted by Chinese-speaking college students and teachers from the U.S. and China who were either studying to become English teachers or who were actively teaching English. Huang Ping County Educational Bureau was supposed to arrange with Kali Teachers College for a bilingual teacher on our staff.
Tentative Calendar Summer 2014
Summer 2013
Previous sites: This program has been held previously in Leishan (Guizhou) Lin Xian (Shanxi), Shilou (Shanxi) and Qinglong (Hebei).Dates: The program for 2013 began on July 15th. Orientation for the staff to the new site and to the program, to set up the office and to coordinate our plans and expectations with those of the local Education Bureau started on July 12th.
(Judy Manton and Emily He were to arrive on July 11th. Dr. Cynthia Wiseman could not arrive until July 15th.)
Zigen English Teachers Program Schedule for July , 2014
9:00 Opening Ceremon
Welcome
10:15 Overview of Program
10:30 Closing: group sing
10:45 Sign-up and Registration forms
11:00-1pm Oral Interviews
1-2:15 Working LUNCH
2:30 Afternoon Session
Ice breakers, games, song
Tentative Academic Schedule for Summer 2014 (subject to change)
Day 1
Songs for learning English
Day 1
Teaching grammar in context
My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals
Academic Schedule for Summer 2013
Day 1
Songs for learning English
Day 1
Teaching grammar in context
My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals
Schedule of topics for Summer 2012
Scheduled Topics for Summer 2012
Proposed Daily Schedule for Summer 2012
Academic Calendar for Summer 2011
July 10-17 Arrival of Staff at LinXian Hotel, LinXian, Shanxi Province. Set-up of office, orientation of volunteers, planning of program
July 12 Meeting with local teachers and toured local schools
July 18
Opening ceremony
Ice-breaker activities
Interviews & placement testing
July 19 1st day of class
Aug 11 Public Lesson
Aug 12 Last day of class & closing ceremony & party
Aug 13 Program evaluation, pack up materials
Academic Calendar for Summer 2010
12 July Train or plane to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province
All volunteers arrive at Taiyuan
Liu Li and the van pick us up at Taiyuan
13 July Orientation to Lishi, the hotel and school
14 July Training of the volunteers and set up the office
15 July Training of the volunteers
16 July Training of the volunteers and of Lishi teacher volunteers
17 July (Sunday) visit some teachers in a village participants (teachers) arrive from villages
18 July Placement test and welcome
19 July Classes begin
12 Aug Classes end, party!
13 Aug (Friday) Teaching staff packs up the teaching materials and everyone is taken to Taiyuan
Tentative program
· Introductions
· Orientation
· Icebreakers
· Games and activities
· Icebreakers
· Last Day
· Party
· Clean up
· Wrap-up
· feedback
July 14
AM: Meeting of all staff
· Orientation
· Program
· Zigen
· Education
PM: Set up office
· Materials (files & library)
· Procedures (photocopying, procedures, internet access, transportation, etc.)
· Assignment of classes (elementary & middle/high school)
· Get local textbooks
· Council of students – feedback
July 15
Training of Volunteers
Introduction to field of EFL/ESL
· SLA
· Methods
· Materials
· Activities
· Curriculum
· Approaches
· Whole Language
· Pronunciation
· Lesson Planning according to the textbook
· English corner
· Visualizer (multimedia machine)
· CDs, overhead, internet
Planning the Program:
· Reality check: What can the teachers use in class? How can they learn English by using it?
· Evenings: movies w/ activities
· Daily schedule: 8:30-11:30; 2:30-5:30 (?)
· Assignment of responsibilities
o Liaison with education – Luilei
o Materials – Judy
o Photocopying –
o Liaison w/ restaurant and hotel
Day 1 – Training
Introduction to ESL/EFL
· SLA – Language learning
· Methods/Approaches
· Skills/grammar/vocab
· Language teaching
· Materials for different levels & different textbooks & supplementary materials & development of supplementary activities
· Cultures represented in textbooks?
· Development of lessons?
· ESL websites?
· Assignments
· Materials on internet
Day 2 – Training Volunteers
AM: in pairs – plan a lesson (timing, activities, textbook, etc.)
PM: presentation of lesson and feedback
Day 3 – Training
Focus on different skills and components of language learning/teaching
· Listening/speaking
reading/writing
· Vocabulary
· Grammar